Two Mexican nationals arrested in connection to woman’s death in Texas

Two illegal immigrants from Mexico were recently arrested in connection with the murder of a 43-year-old woman in Texas.

Enrique Gomez-Urbina, 21, of Mexico, was arrested by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and is charged with first-degree murder and resisting arrest, according to the Austin Police Department.

He is in immigration detention pending investigation into homicide.

Gomez-Urbina’s “associate” Jesus Llamas-Yanez, 48, of Mexico, wanted by Mexican federal authorities on a weapons charge, is being extradited to Mexico.

Enrique Gomez-Urbina, 21, of Mexico, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with a woman found dead in Austin, Texas. (Austin Police Department)

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On Oct. 6, an employee at a local tire store found the body of a woman in a wooded area behind the business with “apparent trauma,” according to police.

The woman, later identified as Mary Gonzales, was believed to have been shot, according to the Travis County medical examiner’s office.

Authorities said the night before they stopped Gomez-Urbina about a mile from the scene after he failed to stop at a stop sign, FOX 7 Austin reported.

Inside his car, police allegedly found open beer bottles, a Glock pistol and ammunition, according to the report.

The woman was found dead earlier this month behind a tire store in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/American-Statesman/USA TODAY NETWORK)

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Surveillance footage showed a car matching Gomez-Urbina’s near the body about an hour before he was arrested by police, FOX 7 reported.

Modelo bottles and a spent shell casing, from the same ammunition found in Gomez-Urbina’s car, were also found at the scene.

It is unclear where the two illegal immigrants entered the United States and how long they remained in the country illegally.

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Officials with the US Marshals Service told the outlet that the two men tried to run after the crime but were later caught.

It is unclear when and where Gomez-Urbina entered the United States illegally.

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He is being held in the Travis County Jail on $254,000 bond.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.